[R-pkg-team] Bug#923447: openssl breaks r-cran-openssl autopkgtest

[Jeroen Ooms]

FWIW, the underlying problem in a regression in libssl though. So if
the problem appears for other packages you could also backport this
libssl patch: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/8375





On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:59 AM Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have submitted a hotfix release openssl 1.2.2 to cran that should
> fix the issue. It should be there soon.
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:24 PM Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd be deligted if somebody from the team could care since I'm
> > basically offline-ish until 4.3.
> >
> > Thank you, Andreas.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:29:12PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > Source: openssl, r-cran-openssl
> > > Control: found -1 openssl/1.1.1b-1
> > > Control: found -1 r-cran-openssl/1.2.1+dfsg-1
> > > Severity: important
> > > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> > > User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> > > Usertags: breaks needs-update
> > >
> > > Dear maintainers,
> > >
> > > With a recent upload of openssl the autopkgtest of r-cran-openssl fails
> > > in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of
> > > openssl from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from
> > > testing. In tabular form:
> > >                        pass            fail
> > > openssl                from testing    1.1.1b-1
> > > r-cran-openssl         from testing    1.2.1+dfsg-1
> > > all others             from testing    from testing
> > >
> > > I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The error
> > > looks quite scary to me, but I have no idea if this means that
> > > r-cran-openssl is really failing, or if openssl has changed it's
> > > interface in a bad way.
> > >
> > > Currently this regression is blocking the migration of openssl to
> > > testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report
> > > against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and
> > > reassign the bug to the right package? If needed, please change the
> > > bug's severity.
> > >
> > > Please note that the window to fix this to allow openssl to migrate
> > > without intervention is closing extremely soon.
> > >
> > > More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=openssl
> > >
> > > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-openssl/2021380/log.gz
> > >
> > > autopkgtest [21:16:05]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------
> > >
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> > > > library(testthat)
> > > > library(openssl)
> > > >
> > > > test_check("openssl")
> > > double free or corruption (fasttop)
> > > Aborted
> > > autopkgtest [21:16:05]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
> > >
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